"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Extraordinary Failures of US Intelligence Community
Submitted by Government Deni... on Mon, 2014-10-06 00:00
"When it comes to getting ahead of the latest developments on the planet, the ones that might really mean something to the government it theoretically serves, the IC is -- as best we can tell from the record it largely prefers to hide -- almost always behind the 8-ball. It seems to have been caught off guard regularly enough to defy any imaginable odds."
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